Self-interpreting Bible
Job 3
1Job curseth the day of his birth, 11and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: 20he complaineth of life because of his anguish.
1 AFTER this aopened Job his mouth, and bcursed his day.
- a: Job 1:22 , Job 2:10
- b: Je. 20:14 , Ps. 106:33
2 And Job 1spake, and said,
3 cLet the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
- c: Job 10:18 , Job 10:19 , Je. 20:14 - 18 , Je. 15:10
4 Let that day be ddarkness; let not eGod regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the fshadow of death 2stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; 3let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; 4let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
- 4: Or, let it not rejoice among the days.
7 Lo, let that night be gsolitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it hthat curse the day, who are ready to raise up 5their mourning.
- h: 2Ch. 35:25 , Je. 9:17 - 20 , Am. 5:16
- 5: Or, a leviathan, ch. 41.1. Ps. 74.14; 104.26. , Job 41:1 , Ps. 74:14 , Ps. 104:26
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it ilook for light, but have none; neither let it see 6the dawning of the day:
10 Because it jshut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid ksorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why ldied I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why mdid the knees *prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should nI have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 oWith kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- o: Ps. 49:6 - 10 , Ps. 49:14 , Ps. 89:48 , Job 30:23
15 Or with princes that had gold, who pfilled their houses with silver:
16 Or qas an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- q: Ps. 58:8 , Re. 6:13 , Ec. 6:3 - 5
17 There the rwicked cease from troubling; and there the 7weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the soppressor.
19 The tsmall and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is ulight given to him that is in misery, and life unto the vbitter in soul;
21 wWhich 8long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man xwhose way is hid, and ywhom God hath zhedged in?
24 For amy sighing cometh 9before I eat, and bmy roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 For 10the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- 10: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me.